Yuan Huazi closed his eyes and chanted sutras, and was deep in thought. His gray preaching robe tightly wrapped his skinny body, and it seemed that everything was separated from his body. After a long time, he sighed softly.
"The old Taoist is penniless, let alone the immortal creature and the holy product of the Immortal Family. Your master may have found the wrong person."
Even when the old Taoist priest faced the legendary immortal, he was still as stubborn as a stone. He would rather be weathered and eroded into a handful of dust than bow his head an inch.
The ethereal voice suddenly sounded, and all the paper-tied immortals turned their heads suddenly, and resumed their free and easy postures of drinking and raising glasses, seeming to have swept away the tense atmosphere in the cave.
"Ma'am, you can recognize this thing."
The candlelight in the cave was swaying and the light was uncertain. It finally calmed down after a long time, but a tall and strange bronze vessel appeared on the chessboard stone.
Seeing this artifact, even Yuan Huazi's face trembled, and his face instantly became covered with a layer of grayness.
This bronze vessel is stained with rust, severely eroded, and has a worn and earthy color. It seems that it was dug out of the soil not long ago, but its shape is strange that I have never seen before. The theme is a gilt bronze feathered weirdo.
The bronze statue is about three feet high and is made entirely of gilt. It has a strange appearance with long eyes, a pointed nose and a beak. There is no hair crown on the top of its head, but its ears are as big as a pair of swallow wings. It has no ordinary human face at all.
But what's even weirder is that the bronze man's cheeks are plump and fleshy. He pulls his face and wide mouth into a weird and indifferent smile, and stares ahead. The shape is lifelike, as if such a species really existed in ancient times, and the craftsmen just made it matter-of-factly.
I saw this bronze figure kneeling on the ground, holding a rectangular box in both hands. What's even weirder is that under its long arms, there is a pair of wings with fine texture, connected to the back of the upper arms, which looks deformed and weird. Smooth...
"The Immortal rides a white deer. His hair is short and his ears are long. He leads me up to Taihua, where I pick up the sesame seeds and get a red banner. When I come to the master's door, he offers a jade box of medicine. The master takes this medicine and his body becomes stronger day by day. His hair turns white and becomes darker again. , prolong life."
The ethereal voice recited Yuefu poems from the Han Dynasty in an ancient accent, seeming to be singing about a messenger who brought immortality.
After finishing the song, the voice rang again, "Sir, the things in the bronze box of the Blue Bird and Feather Man were given by Queen Mother of the West. They have been left in the world for a long time, and they should be returned today."
Yuan Huazi had written fear into the wrinkles on his face, lowered his head and murmured: "I have never seen Queen Mother of the West's elixir of immortality. Your master knows this for sure."
"Haha, the real person is laughing."
The ethereal voice continued to come, without any smoke and fire, "I have never seen the 'Elixir of Immortality', isn't the 'Han Yuan Shou Palace Fragrance' not on you? Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent envoys to worship Wuyi Lord in this cave to gain heaven. Someone gives you medicine, and after you take it, you see an immortal waving his hand on the top of a mountain. Do you want to say that this is not the case?"
Piaomiao's voice was full of emotion, "In the blink of an eye, these things have already happened thousands of years ago..."
Yuan Huazi was silent for a moment and replied hoarsely.
"Master once passed down the secret recipe for making incense, but now it has been burned by the old Taoist. Since the Han Dynasty, Wu has been good at immortals, and many of his descendants have been sycophants, sorcerers and feathers. This incense recipe cannot be avoided. In the Chan Yu Dynasty, there are always big people in China. Therefore, what happened is ridiculous, and I hope your master will see clearly."
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The so-called "Chan Yu's dynasty in China often caused serious troubles" is the most shocking one among the various signs of decline and doomsday predictions in the late Western Han Dynasty.
At that time, someone discovered that it seemed that whenever the Xiongnu Chanyu came to court, some ominous changes would always occur, and even the emperor would be killed repeatedly.
In the first month of spring of the first year of Huanglong, Huhan Xie Shanyu from the Huns came to the court, and the gifts were as before. ...In the twelfth month of winter, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty died in Weiyang Palace.
In the first month of spring of the first year of Jingning, the Xiongnu Hu Hanxie Shanyu came to court. ...On Renchen in the fifth month, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty died in Weiyang Palace.
In the first month of spring in the fourth year of Heping, the Xiongnu Chanyu came to court. ...In the third month of Renshen, the bank of Changling Linjing collapsed and the Yongjing River collapsed. In the sixth month of summer, Gengxu, the king of Chu died. But in the second year of Suihe, strange celestial phenomena frightened the only surviving Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty.
In order to save himself from disaster, Emperor Cheng forced Prime Minister Zhai Fangjin to commit suicide - but he himself still did not live past March of that year.
Three emperors died in succession, and the rulers of the Western Han Dynasty also thought about banning the Shanyu from coming to the court. However, the Huns were still a border threat at that time. If the tribute system could not be maintained, it would only show the weakness of the dynasty, and even undermine the fate of the prophecy. Shake the foundation of rule.
Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty, who succeeded Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, tried every means to extend his life and launched the largest superstitious activity in the Western Han Dynasty -
The Queen Mother of the West issued an edict.
"Book of Han: Chronicles of Emperor Ai": The folk biography of Guandong traveled to the Queen Mother of the West, experienced the prefectures and states, and entered the Guan in the west to the capital. The people also gathered to worship the Queen Mother of the West, or went up to their houses holding fires at night, beating drums and trumpets and shouting in terror.
"Han Shu·Tian Wen Zhi": In the first year of Emperor Ai's Jianping year, the people were alarmed, and Ye Ye ran around and issued an edict to prepare a temple for the Queen Mother of the West. He also said, "People from Zongmu will come."
By the time the sun rose in the second month of the fourth year of his life, there was a white sky, as wide as a piece of cloth, more than ten feet long, traveling southwest like thunder, and stopped for a moment while traveling southwest. It was named Tiangu. It is said: "If you don't follow your words, there will be troubles like dogs and poetry monsters."
No one knows why the official tacit blessing prayer activities arouse such fear among the people in Jingzhao, which is almost like the disaster of the hat demon during the Tianxi period of the Northern Song Dynasty.
But whether it was the rumors about the "Tengu" or the "Zongmu people", they all pointed to the rumor that they had the elixir of immortality with the Queen Mother of the West. Both of them were envoys who sent the elixir to the Queen Mother.
From a certain day, someone discovered that unusually strong incense was lit everywhere in the Weiyang Palace, and it almost stayed on the clothes for more than ten days. For a time, there were many rumors in Chang'an City.
The ministers of the previous court secretly said in private that Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty, who was rumored to have a sinister illness and who had been shrouded in ominous circumstances since he ascended the throne, seemed to have recovered from the strong fragrance and began to govern the country.
This "Han Yuan Longevity Palace Fragrance" has also been imitated by wealthy families.
At this time, people in Guandong still gathered outside the Temple of the Queen Mother of the West on a certain day every month to scare each other away, or hold the Queen Mother of the West to greet each other. When they met on the road, there were often thousands of people. Breaking into a house over a wall, or riding a horse regardless of the danger, and being so crazy that it cannot be stopped.
Some people even expressed secretly that all these are inevitably related.
Warlocks from various countries in Shandong even more categorically claimed that a ceremony was held in the palace of Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty to pray for the surrender of three envoys of the Queen Mother of the West. Among them, Zongmu Yu was the "Blue Bird" and Bailian Tengu was the "Shaoyu". As long as the last envoy " "The big eagle" comes with the medicine, and the curse will be easily solved.
What is strange is that in June of the second year of Yuanshou, Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty died in Weiyang Palace. The strange circle of "Chanyu's dynasty in China always leads to great troubles" was once again "fulfilled" by Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty.
A ethereal sound sounded from outside the sky, drifting helplessly and extremely strange.
"Thousands of years are like a blink of an eye, but the opportunity is still elusive and difficult to grasp. I ask you, this last Han Yuan Shou Palace Incense should be in the hands of your apprentice..."
